Last updated: 19 September 2026
1. Who We Are
Find Partner is an online service that helps climbers find potential climbing partners in and around Geyikbayırı and Antalya.
Website: https://findpartner.climbinggeyikbayiri.com/
The data controller responsible for this website is:
Metin Yılmaz
Akdamlar neighborhood Geyikbayırı road no:308/1 Konyaaltı ANT
Email: climbinggeary@gmail.com
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you use Find Partner, we may collect:
- Account information, such as your email address, username, login details and one-time verification information.
- Profile information you choose to provide, such as your display name, profile photograph, climbing experience, preferred climbing areas, availability dates and other profile details.
- Search and service information, such as the climbing areas and dates you select when looking for a partner.
- Communications you send to us, including support requests or privacy enquiries.
- Technical information, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, login activity, security logs and cookie-consent choices.
- Cookies and similar technologies required to operate the website or enabled with your permission.
Please do not add sensitive personal information to your public profile unless it is necessary and you are comfortable making it visible.
3. Public Profile Information
Find Partner is designed to help visitors discover potential climbing partners. Information you choose to publish in your partner profile may therefore be visible to visitors or other users searching the website.
You are responsible for deciding what optional information to publish. You may update or remove your profile information through your account, where available, or by contacting us.
4. Why We Use Your Information
We process personal information to:
- Create, authenticate and manage user accounts.
- Provide profile, partner-search and related website features.
- Verify login attempts and deliver one-time authentication codes.
- Display information that users choose to publish.
- Maintain website security, prevent fraud, spam and misuse, and troubleshoot technical problems.
- Respond to questions, support requests and privacy requests.
- Remember essential preferences and consent choices.
- Provide optional services such as Google Maps and Google Translate when consent has been given.
- Meet applicable legal, regulatory and record-keeping obligations.
5. Legal Bases for Processing
Depending on the activity and applicable law, we process information on one or more of the following bases:
- Performance of a service or contract: to create your account and provide the features you request.
- Legitimate interests: to secure, maintain and improve the website, prevent abuse and respond to enquiries, provided these interests do not override your rights.
- Consent: for optional cookies, Google services and similar technologies. You may withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal obligations: when processing or retaining information is required by applicable law.
- Other processing conditions permitted under Türkiye’s Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK).
Information marked as required during registration is needed to create or secure your account. If you do not provide it, we may be unable to provide the relevant service.
6. Cookies and Optional Services
We use essential cookies to provide security, login, preferences and core website functionality. These cookies cannot be disabled through the consent banner because the requested service cannot function properly without them.
With your permission, optional services may include Google Maps, Google Translate and, where applicable, Google Fonts. These services may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser information and interactions with their features.
You can accept or reject optional services through the consent banner and change your choices later through Cookie Settings.
For details about cookies, providers, purposes and expiration periods, please see our Cookie Policy.
Google’s handling of information is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
7. Who We Share Information With
We may share information only when necessary with:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers.
- Email and one-time-code delivery providers.
- Security, backup, caching and technical-support providers.
- Google services, but only when the relevant optional consent has been given.
- Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
- Courts, regulators, law-enforcement authorities or other parties when disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect legal rights and safety.
We do not sell personal information.
8. International Data Transfers
Some service providers, including Google, may process information in countries outside Türkiye or the European Economic Area.
Where such transfers occur, they will be handled in accordance with applicable data-protection law, using an applicable legal transfer mechanism or consent where required. You may contact us for more information about relevant recipients and safeguards.
9. How Long We Keep Information
We retain information only for the period needed for the purpose for which it was collected:
- Account and profile information is generally retained while your account remains active.
- Information published in your profile is removed or anonymised when the relevant profile or account is deleted, unless retention is legally required.
- One-time verification information is short-lived and retained only as required for authentication, security and abuse prevention.
- Security and technical logs are retained for the limited period required to investigate problems and protect the website.
- Support communications may be retained until the request is resolved and for any additional period reasonably required for legal or administrative records.
- Consent records may be retained as necessary to demonstrate compliance.
- Deleted information may remain temporarily in restricted backups until those backups are overwritten through the normal backup cycle.
10. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Ask whether we process your personal information and request access to it.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of your information.
- Request restriction of processing.
- Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests.
- Receive eligible information in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal.
- Request information about recipients and international transfers.
- Lodge a complaint with the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) or, where applicable, a data-protection authority in the European Economic Area.
To exercise a privacy right, email climbinggeyikbayiri@gmail.com. We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before acting on a request.
11. Account and Profile Deletion
Where account-deletion tools are available, you may use them directly. You may also request deletion by emailing climbinggeyikbayiri@gmail.com.
Some limited information may be retained when required for security, legal compliance, dispute resolution or the establishment and defence of legal claims.
12. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or misuse. However, no website or method of internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Keep your login credentials and verification codes confidential and notify us if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.
13. Third-Party Links
The website may contain links to third-party websites or services. Their privacy practices are controlled by those third parties, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing information.
14. Automated Decision-Making
We do not use personal information to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
15. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, its services or applicable legal requirements change. The latest version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.
16. Contact Us
For questions, privacy requests or complaints, contact:
Metin Yılmaz
Akdamlar neighborhood Geyikbayırı road no:308/1 Konyaaltı ANT
Email: climbinggeyikbayiri@gmail.com